AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.
Power consumption is at 200 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 25.77 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN
Code name
Wimbledon XT
Type
Laptop
Release date
1 May 2012
Technical specs
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
of 7
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size
large
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
11.1
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
25.77
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
11119
3DMark Vantage Performance
31127
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our rating.
